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Monday, December 4, 2023
Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and King Charles are just three of the more than 70,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries at the latest UN climate summit in Dubai, COP28. But they are among hundreds who will have travelled there by private jet. In fact, the UK prime minister, foreign...
In February 1990, in the midst of the Troubles, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness publicly invited the British government to reopen a back-channel used during previous phases of contact with the IRA in the 1970s and during the 1981 hunger strike. If think there is something to be lost by...
Headteachers in Brighton and Hove have sent a letter to the education secretary to voice their disappointment at the lack of funding their schools are receiving. Forty-four headteachers signed a letter addressed to Gillian Keegan, the Secretary of State for Education. The letter warned that students could suffer and called...
Labour Councillors are bringing forward an amendment today to block Green attempts to ram through their proposed cuts to the lifeguard service, despite Labour securing additional funds to retain the service at Budget Council. The Greens are determined to double down on their seemingly ideological cuts to lifeguards, which is...
The deadliest fighting in years between Israel and Hamas had by mid-May killed over 200 Palestinians in Gaza, including dozens of children, and at least 10 in Israel. Both sides are accused of violating international law – Israel for its alleged disproportionate bombardment of residential buildings and Palestinian groups...
Brighton and Hove's Green Council has pledged to continue fighting against the forced academisation of Moulsecoomb Primary Brighton and Hove’s Green Council has today reaffirmed its commitment to the Hands Off Moulsecoomb Primary Campaign, as news that three new academy sponsors are being considered. The campaign will relaunch with an online...
With Boris Johnson being under constant and intense scrutiny as every day passes in a lockdown now soon to lift, attention is constantly being placed on who may be able to do a better job in the future.   Since his election following Jeremy Corbyn’s loss and resignation, Sir Kier Starmer...
Government under criticism as deals with the controversial US data analytics firm Palantir could hinder the Home Office’s claims about safety for illegal migrants who come forward for treatment and vaccination against COVID-19.  Rose Elizabeth Dodd investigates.  The Government has said that COVID-19 testing, treatment and vaccinations are free on the...
As of 12.01 pm on Wednesday, Donald J Trump was no longer President of the United States.  However, while he may have left office it his is legacy that will live on in the memory of the American people. Whether that is good or bad, depends primarily of how...
Is a Second American Civil War on the Horizon? Abraham Lincoln once proclaimed ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand’ . Yet, not since the secession of the south in 1860 has there been such a political divide across the United States of America. This past week, a country famous...